Alexey Dral

Alexey Dral is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BigData Team. His 10 year working experience for the top Russian and international companies, including Amazon AWS, Yandex, Rambler and qualification on large-scale problems, leading R&D teams, defining strategy for the whole departments build up a great mentor with an aspiration to offer insights to his students. He teaches around the globe, launches new onsite and online courses to reduce the gap between industry and academia, supervise Data Science and Data Engineering initiatives.

-10 years of IT experience (Amazon AWS, Yandex, Rambler);

-instructor and author of a number educational courses on Machine Learning / Big Data / programs for Chief Data Officers (MSU, HSE, MIPT, YSDA, Harbour.Space University, University NTI 20.35, Xiamen University);

-head of international online course "Big Data for Data Engineers" in collaboration with Yandex;

-expert at Agency of Strategic Initiatives at Russian Federation;

Research/Academic Interests: Big Data, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems